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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3281826, member: 27"]
i don’t hate this and I don’t love it.

I am sure we have been working on getting 2 for 1s or home I lied to try and ensure we have 7 home games each season. 
 
If we can’t get these, the next best thing is home and homes with bad programs close to our fan base.

This checks those boxes.  
 
We did them a big solid agreeing to play a road game in November.  They are going to have tremendous trouble getting decent opponents to play them at the Rent in November.  I think the road trip gets a lot less attractive when the roads is in November.    That should have been enough to get a 2 for 1.  I think we didn’t do a great job thinking this out and negotiating properly.

We have never scheduled well.  The last couple of years have seen the most promising and thoughtful scheduling in my memory.  I would be good with a November game of it was a 2 for 1 and would be okay with a 2 for 2 with no games in November.

Bottom line is, we don’t have a stadium and fan base big enough to compete with the big boys to get home onlies and 2 for 1s.  I wish we were.  I think we are probably going to have to do home and homes a lot for OOC games and given this, it makes sense to play schools near our fan base that we will probably beat.

Many will bitch and moan but I suspect this is the best we can do, at least for now.  Maybe as the ACCN revenues spike up, we can be more selective.
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